The Question has been referred to the Gauteng Education Department and a response will be rendered as soon as it is received.
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More »The Question has been sent to the Western Cape Department of Education, and will be rendered immediately after the receipt of a proper response from that province..
More »The Question has been sent to all nine Provincial Education Departments for responses. The response will be rendered immediately after the receipt and collation of the provincial inputs.
More »The Department of Basic Education does not formally implement a first aid training course at its schools. Individual schools train their educators and learners on first aid techniques.
More »Information on vacancy rates per subject is currently not available at the national level as it is not routinely collected as part of the monitoring framemeworks. The table below shows the overall vacancy rate per province as reported by the Provincial Education Departments at the end of September 2019. It is important to note that a vacancy as identified here does not imply that ...
1. The topics and content in the Scripted Lesson Plans (SLPs) are guided by the Life Skills and Life Orientation Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) themes and topics. As such, the Scripted Lesson Plans are not bringing new themes and topics. The difference is that, other materials used to deliver Life Skils and Life Orientation is not scripted; and do not guide on what teaching methodolgy can ...
(1) The Department does not have a CSE textbook. The textbooks that are developed by the team are Life Skills and Life Orientation textbooks and not a CSE textbook.
(2)The Scripted Lesson Plans are not textbooks; but serve as a teacher resource to support the delivery of the Life Skills and Life Orientation section of the subject; and are currently available in English only.
No. It is highly impossible to phase out single medium schools in South Africa. Of the 25 762 schools, more than 20 000 are single medium, with very few dual or parallel medium.
Language policy matters in schools are governed by the following legislation and policy frameworks:
1. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa
Section 29(2), under the Bill of Rights, provides ...
1. The syllabus that is taught in public schools is informed by the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS). Schools may not use their own discretion in this regard. This equally applies to the Life Skills /Life Orientation subjects, which includes Sexuality Education.
2. A total of 6356 Life Orientation and Life Skills teachers from the pilot schools have been trained.
3. The implementation of the pilot was planned with ...